An Introduction to the US Health Care SystemSpringer Publishing Company, 25/05/2007 - 328 من الصفحات Completely expanded and updated to account for the latest changes in the U.S. health care system, this best-selling text remains the most concise and balanced introduction to the domestic health care system. Like its predecessors, it provides an accessible overview of the basic components of the system: healthcare personnel, hospitals and other institutions, the federal government, financing and payment mechanisms, and managed care. Finally, it provides an insightful look at the prospects for health care reform. Steven Jonas, a revered expert in public health, has enlisted his colleagues, Drs. Raymond and Karen Goldsteen, to add their expertise in public health and health policy and management to this outstanding volume. All students of health care administration and policy, as well as practicing healthcare professionals who simply want a relatively brief overview of the system, will find it useful. |
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... Payments Provider Payment Approaches Risk Transfer and Good Intentions Third-Party Payers Conclusions Health Care System Performance Introduction Quality of Health Care Population Health Outcomes Clinical Outcomes Clinical Effectiveness ...
... pay for. Every dollar of health expenditures is a dollar of health revenue for someone. This is why although observers say we don't have a “health system” in this country, even though it does not make sense to most observers, we do ...
... paying for health care, the equity and efficiency of health care as provided, and population health outcomes. These differences make the U.S. health care system unique, even among its peer nations. HEALTH. AND. HEALTH. CARE. What Is Health ...
... paying for, much less operating, its health care system. The United States has had a private fee-for-service system of medical practice that, certainly since the end of World War II, has produced, among other things, high incomes for ...
... payment (about 14% of the total) (U.S. Census Bureau, 2005, Table 119). Government expenditures are for both services that it operates directly and services patients receive from independent providers. In this case, government is a ...
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Chapter 3 Hospitals and Other Health Care Institutions | 63 |
Chapter 4 Primary and Ambulatory Care | 83 |
Chapter 5 Government and the Health Care System | 107 |
Chapter 6 Financing | 129 |
Chapter 7 Health Care System Performance | 167 |
Chapter 8 From Prepaid Group Medical Practice to Managed Care | 205 |
Chapter 9 Health Care Reform | 227 |
Epilogue | 263 |
List of Critical Reports on the US Health Care Delivery System 19272006 | 275 |
Sources of Data | 279 |
Glossary of Terms | 285 |
Index | 295 |